That's better

The snow left temporarily. Possibly more on Tuesday, but at least it melts fast!

This morning

Dr. Seuss's birthday

Laura's school celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday in February with a crazy day. For her crazy clothes, we decided to use washable markers to decorate a plain white shirt.  All the artwork is hers except the monkeys around the collar. There is even a reference to Dr. Seuss's three fish in a tree (how can that be?).

Laura is 5!

Wow! Haven't posted in a while. Guess the spring is distracting.

Here are Laura's birthday pictures, almost a month late.

Her cake looks mysteriously like her 4 year old cake. Check it out:

My birthday!

And here's my birthday, also about a month late. I'm a little more than 5.

Welcome back

Welcome home Jim! We missed you.

Laura's "new" bike

Laura requested a red bike for her birthday. You would be amazed how hard it is to find a plain, red bike without Spiderman, Cars, or Gravedigger on it. So we fixed and redecorated our hand-me-down yellow bike that said Caterpillar and made it slightly more her style. Not too bad for duct tape!

Too bad it has been too snowy to ride it yet! Hopefully we'll get out this week.

Hello baby lemon

Lemon tree is producing!

Busy

We are having a busy March.
Jenny & Laura's birthdays.
Laura went to 4 friends' birthday parties!
I am participating in a Lenten small group discussion, a Just Eating class (about hunger around the world), and a class at a nearby community college about choosing a career. And we had a play group here with 12 kids and 4 moms last Friday (3 were babies and spring break added more older kids than normal).
Jim will have worked everyday in March, including weekends, trying to get his paper written for a conference in Finland (!) in June and submit several projects at work. Meanwhile, he has also traveled/will travel to North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Las Vegas for meetings.

Whew!